![]() ![]() ![]() Review: Crown in Darkness by Paul Doherty, P.C.Review: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.(I tried to find a good quote from the book to include here, but I couldn't choose, and you really need the context to appreciate the humour). I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who appreciates this kind of humour. Ignatius is almost an anti-hero he is fat, lazy and full of excuses, however somehow I was cheering for him and his eccentric ways. Although if you are planning to deny that you ever thought of yourself as a maverick, it would be better not to have subtitled one of your memoirs The Education of an American Maverick. President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 20 April 2023. The wit and vocabulary of Ignatius Reilly had me laughing at almost every page, wishing I had his talent for speech and conversation. A confederacy of dunces: Ramaphosa is drowning in a sea of morbid symptoms. Given that I generally don't read books written in the 60s (unless it's a classic), and avoid any book claiming to be 'funny' for fear of cringeworthy slap-stick humour that is ha-ha funny, I was more than pleasantly surprised to find myself totally engrossed in this book! ![]() The novel went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, and has now become a classic. ![]() His mother found the manuscript and pounded the pavement to get a publisher to read and publish it. The reason I chose this book initially is that it was written in the 1960s and tragically the author committed suicide in 1969 at age 32 without it ever being published. ![]()
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